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OSS tools in VSTS, how about it?

Roy and Ayende's cross blog debate about VSTS and OSS tools has struck a cord in my mind. If microsoft's customers want to extend the VSTS with OSS tools why should anything stand in their way (they have paid for it to meet there needs after all).  What I would like to see is Microsoft openly enage the OSS tool teams in some discussion about how the product can better integrate with OSS tools and and vice-versa.
Posted: May 02 2007, 03:01 PM by andrewstopford | with 3 comment(s)
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Will Ballard said:

I'm all for extension, in particular I'm aiming to integrate NUnit/MbUnit/Selenium into MS Test.

In general, I don't expect Microsoft to do the work, and the open source teams are interested in making their frameworks first. Integration is, well, rather tedious work, and plugging into MSTS or VS is rather specialized programming, with a large amount of COM, which discourages the casual or 'pure .NET' developer.

# May 2, 2007 10:26 AM

John said:

Actually, recent announcements from MS on post-Orcas are all about this. Can't remember the source -- Brian Harry or Buck Hodges, I believe. But it was explicitly about having open extensibility points to make plugging in testing, code coverage, etc. into the IDE/VSTS ecosystem.

# May 3, 2007 4:41 AM

Ben Hall said:

John, I knew I had heard it somewhere but had forgot the source.  Still can't remember how I heard about it.  Would be interesting to find more out about this, shame its post-Orcas.

# May 11, 2007 10:17 AM
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